Pascal Boyer Quotes

#1. Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not

Richard Dawkins

#2. I will shoot on film as long as they make it.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#3. They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

Haruki Murakami

#4. [R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

Pascal Boyer

#5. Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love?

Donna Lynn Hope

#6. The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.

Pascal Boyer

#7. Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be

Marilyn Manson

#8. I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse.

Rob Walton

#9. A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,

Pascal Boyer

#10. To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

Cyril Cusack

#11. [T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.

Pascal Boyer

#12. Words cannot express how pissed off I am. I am going to have to invent a new word to explain how angry I am. Karflagled. I am so karflagled off at you right now!" "See,

C.T. Phipps

#13. Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.

Moises Naim